Pangrams in Misc. Documents
Also see:Here are the shortest pangrams from various documents. The first occurrence of each letter is highlighted.
I have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr (August 28, 1963)This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
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US Supreme Court Decision in Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas (1954)It is required in the performance of our most basic public responsibilities, even service in the armed forces. It is the very foundation of good citizenship. Today it is a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values, in preparing him for later professional training, and in helping him to adjust normally to his environment. In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
Chief Justice Earl Warren, 394 letters
Magna Carta (1215)(17) Ordinary lawsuits shall not follow the royal court around, but shall be held in a fixed place.
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(18) Inquests of novel disseisin, mort d'ancestor, and darrein presentment shall be taken only in their proper county court. We ourselves, or in our absence abroad our chief justice, will send two justices to each county four times a year, and these justices, with four knights of the county elected by the county itself, shall hold the assizes in the county court, on the day and in the place where the court meets.
Oxford English Dictionary(a) (a nickname for) an energetic or exciting jazz trumpeter; (b) (freq. humorous) the lips of a person who kisses passionately; (a nickname for) an attractive or sexy person; one who is or is believed to be a passionate kisser.
Definition for "Hot Lips", 174 letters, (reference)
Oxford English DictionaryThey argued, with some justification perhaps, that the kolkhozes were unable to use and maintain their expensive equipment properly.
Usage examplefor the word "justification" taken from the book "One Hundred Thousand Tractors", 111 letters (reference)
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